Paul Huggins represents companies in commercial transactions, with particular emphasis on technology and intellectual property-based transactions, services agreements, manufacturing agreements, channel partner agreements, and procurement and supply arrangements. Paul’s clients are in a range of industries and commercialize an array of technologies, including artificial intelligence, software, hardware and robotics, medical devices, materials science, space-related technologies, semiconductors, Internet, ecommerce, solar, telecommunications, rare earth minerals, and electric vehicles.
In recent years, Paul has also taken on a fractional General Counsel role with select clients.
- Paul is presently outside General Counsel for his long-standing client Apptronik, a humanoid robotics company where he helps with internal development and manages numerous outside counsels, including experts in government contracts and compliance, patents and trademarks, litigation, immigration, and employment law.
- Paul played the same role for ICON Technology from 2021-2022 while it recruited its permanent General Counsel, during which time ICON raised hundreds of millions of dollars, started manufacturing its own 3D printers, and materially scaled its employee base and operations.
Prior to co-founding Huggins Reddien LLP, Paul was in the Technology Transactions practice group (and prior to that, the Corporate practice group) of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. a Palo Alto-based firm. At WSGR, he gained extensive experience in venture capital financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate representation. Paul has also served as a staff attorney at IBM Corporation.
Paul received his law degree from The University of Texas School of Law, with honors, and in recent years has enjoyed regularly guest lecturing on Negotiation at his alma mater. He received an A.B. in History from Middlebury College. He is a husband and a father of two. He enjoys trail running but does not always start or finish the races for which he signs up.